Organizations that have qualified through Round 1 will be invited to give an 8 minute presentation on their best practice and/or benchmarking approach at the 6th International Best Practice Competition in Abu Dhabi, UAE, 10/12th December 2018.
The time of each presentation will be shown on the Conference Programme.
Guidelines
- Practice your presentation to ensure it lasts no longer than 8 minutes.
- The following is a recommended outline for an 8 minute Best Practice Competition presentation:
- Slide No.1 – Name of best practice, organization.
- Slide No.2 – Overview of the organization e.g. size, location, products and service
- Slide No.3 – What exactly is the best practice? Describe the best practice clearly. Is it an operational or managerial practice, process, system or initiative? How important is it to your organisation?
- Slides No.4 to 8 – Description of the best practice, how was it designed and implemented, level of deployment – how many staff and/or customers or suppliers does it affect?, description of why it is innovative, performance achieved, evidence that it is a best practice, and next steps planned.
- Slide No.9 – Lessons Learnt – what lessons have been learnt through identifying/designing and implementing the best practice? Can the best practice be further improved?
- For the Best Practice Competition your written entry and presentation will be assessed on the following criteria.
- Level of deployment
- Level of innovation
- Results achieved
- Evidence it is a best practice (use of benchmarking/comparison of results/peer reviewed)
- Review/next steps planned
- Include photographs or videos in your presentation to help you to explain your best practices. Pictures are worth a 1000 words.
- During your presentation, talk clearly and smoothly. Clarity is of the essence. Presenters with English as their mother tongue and a fast mode of speaking should think of other people in the audience whose mother tongue may not be English since this is an international event.
- Rehearse well even if you are an experienced presenter. Your audience is sophisticated, thus, reading from slides during a presentation is deemed unprofessional.
- The organizers are available to provide advice and comment on your presentation slides from 15th to 30th November. This will assist all entrants to deliver a strong presentation. Send your presentations for checking to competition@coer.org.nz
Rules
- Send your final Presentation Slides to competition@coer.org.nz at least 2 days before the Competition Event if less than 10mb. Otherwise bring a USB stick and be ready to load your presentation on the computer at a break prior to your presentation.
- From the start of the buzzer you will have 8 minutes to deliver your presentation. A warning bell will sound with two minutes to go. A final honk will sound precisely on 8 minutes. You then need to close your presentation – a maximum of 15 seconds will be given after the honk for the wrap up of your presentation.
- More than one person can deliver the presentation.
- Inform the organisers if you have any special presentation requirements other than PowerPoint such as: Video, Overhead Projector (slides), Internet access or computer audio, etc.
- Arrive at least 2 hours before your time-slot to ensure that your presentation is correctly loaded on to the computer.
- Failure to turn- up at your allocated time-slot will be interpreted as a withdrawal from the competition.
- The judges’ decision is final.
- The Entry Fee must be paid to participate in Round Friday 30th November 2018.
